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Abraham's School Days.
Abraham began his irregular attend
ance at the nearest school very soon
after he fell under the care of the sec
ond Mrs. Lincoln. It was probably ia
the winter of 1819, she having come out
.in the December of that year. It has
been seen that she was as much im
pressed by his mental precocity as by
the good qualities of his heart.
Hazel Dorsey was his first master.
He presided in a small house near the
Little Pigeon Creek meeting house, a
mile and a half from the Lincoln cab
in. It was bnilt of unhewn logs and
had "holes for windows," in which
"greased paper" served for glass. The
roof was just high enough for a man to
stand erect. Here he was taught read
ing, writing and ciphering. They spell
ed in classes and "trapped" up and
down. These Juvenile contests were
very exciting to the participants, and it
it said by the survivors that Abe was
even then the equal, if not the superior,
of any scholar in his class.
The next teacher was Andrew Craw
ford. Mrs. Gentry says he began peda
gogy in the neighborhood in the win
ter of 1S22-23. He "kept" in the same
little schoolhouse which had been the
scene of Dorsey" s labors, and the win
dows were still adorned with the greas
ed leaves of old copybooks that had
come down from Dorsey's time. Abe
,was now in his fifteenth year and be
gan to exhibit symptoms of gallantry
toward the weaker sex. He was grow
ing at a tremendous rate, and two
years later attained his full height of
six feet four inches. He was long,
wiry and strong, while his big feet and
hands and the length of his legs and
arms were out of all proportion to his
small trunk and head. His complexion
was very swarthy, and Mrs. Gentry
says that his skin was shriveled and
yellow even then. He wore low shoes,
buckskin breeches, linsey-woolsey shirt
and a cap made o the skin of an opos
sum or a coon. The breeches clung
close to his thighs and legs, but failed
by a large space to meet the tops of
his shoes. Twelve Inches remained un
covered and exposed that much of
"shinbone, sharp, blue and narrow."
"He would always come to school
thus, good humoredly and laughing,"
says his old friend, Nat Grigsby. "He
was always In good health, never was
sick, had an excellent constitution and
took care of it"
Lessons In Etiquette.
Crawford taught "manners." This
was a feature of backwoods education
to which Dorsey had not aspired, and
Crawford had doubtless introduced it
as a refinement which would put to
shame the humbler efforts of his prede
cessor. One of the scholars was re
quired to retire and re-enter as a polite
gentleman is supposed to enter a draw
ing room. He was received at the door
hy another scholar and conducted from
tench to beach, uqtll he had been in
troduced ta ail the "roan ladles and
gentlemen" in ft room. .
Thought, and -vrlueii lias been,
nas borne the signature of
been made under bis per-
snperrision since its infancy.
Signature of
WARD
HILL
LAMON,
His Friend.
Partner
a.nd
Bodyguard
less times. If he took a seribus'view of
ABB WAS GBAVKLiT LED ABOUT, SHAME
PACED AJTD GAWKY.
the business, it must have put him to
exquisite torture, for he was conscious
that he was not a perfect type of man
ly beauty, with his long legs and blue
shins, his small head, his geat ears
and shriveled skin. If, however, it
struck him at all funny, it must have
filled him with unspeakable mirth and
given rise to many antic tricks and sly
jokes, as he was gravely led about,
shamefaced and gawky, under the very
eye of the precise Crawford, to be in
troduced to the boys and girls of his
most ancient acquaintance.
But, though Crawford inculcated
manners, be by no means neglected
spelling. Abe was a good speller and
liked to use his knowledge not only to
secure honors for himself, but to help
his less fortunate schoolmates out of
their troubles, and he was exceedingly
ingenious in the selection of expedients
for conveying prohibited hints. One
day Crawford gave out the difficult
word "defied." A large class was on
the floor, but they all provokingly fail
ed to spell It D-e-f-i-d-e, .said one;
d-e-f-y-d-e, said another; d-e-f-y-d
d-e-f-y-e-d, cried another and another.
But it was all wrong. It was shameful
that, among all these big boys and
girls, nobody could spell "defied," and
Crawford's wrath gathered in clouds
ever his terrible brow. He made the
helpless culprits shake with fear. He
declared he would keep the whole class
in all day and all night if "defied" was
notspeUeO.
There was ameng then a. ftUss Bob?,
a trtrt fifteen aeaja e. tag, whom we
jj! nn 1 1 ii ii ii itr ""I'mv' i
Boyhood
must suppose to have been pretty, for
Abe was evidently half in love with
her. "I saw Lincoln at the window,";
says she. "He had his finger in his eye
and a smile on his face. I instantly
took the hint that I must change the
letter y into -an i; hence I spelled the
word; the class let out I felt grateful
to Lincoln for this simple thing."
A Humane Boy.
Nat Grigsby tells us, with unnecessa
ry particularity, that "essays and poet
ry were not taught in this school,"
"Abe took it (them) up on his own ac- x
count" He first wrote short sentences
against cruelty to animals and at
last came forward with a regular com
position on the subject He was very
much annoyed and pained by the con
duct of the boys, who were in the habit
of catching terrapins and putting coals
of fire on their backs. "He would chide
us," says Nat "tell us it was wrong
and would write against it"
The third and last school to which :
Abe went was taught by a Mr. Swaney j
in 1826. To get there he had to travel
four and a half miles, and this going
back' and forth so great a distance oc-;
cupied entirely too much of his time, j
His attendance was therefore only at !
odd times and was speedily broken off j
altogether. The schoolhouse was much
like the other one near the Pigeon Creek
meeting house, except that it had two
chimneys instead of one. The course
of instruction was precisely the same
as under Dorsey and Crawford, save j
that Swaney, like Dorsey, omitted
the great "department of "manners."
"Here," says John Hoskins, the son of
the settler who had "blazed out" the
trail for Thomas Lincoln, "we would
choose up and spell as in old times
every Friday night"
Abe never went to school again in In
diana or elsewhere. Mr. Turnham tells
us that he had excelled all his masters,
and it was no use for him to attempt
to learn anything from them. But he
continued his studies at home or wher
ever he was hired out to work with a
perseverance which showed that he
could scarcely live without some spe
cies of mental excitement. He was by
no means fond of the hard manual la
bor to which his own necessities and
those of his family compelled him.
Many of his acquaintances state this
fact with strong emphasis, among them
Dennis Hanks and Mrs. Lincoln.
His neighbor, John Komine, declares
that Abe was "awful lazy. He worked
for me; was always reading and think
ing; used to get mad at him. He work
ed for me in 1829, pulling fodder. I say
Abe was awful lazy. He would laugh
and talk and crack jokes and tell sto
ries all the time; didn't love work, but
did dearly love his pay. He worked for
me frequently, a few days only at a
time. Lincoln said to me one day that
his father taught him to work, but
never learned him to love it."
Writing on a Shovel
Abe loved to lie under a shade tree
or up in the loft of the cabin and read,
cipher and scribble. At night he sat by
the chimney "jamb" and ciphered by
the light of the fire on the wooden fire
shovel. .When the. shovel was fairly
covered he would shave it off with his
father's drawing knife and begin again.
In the daytime he used boards for the
same purpose out of doors and went
through the shaving process everlast
ingly. His stepmother says: "Abe read dili
gently. He read every book he could
lay his hands on, and when he came
across a passage that struck him be
would write it down on boards if he
had no paper and keep it there until he
did get paper. Then he would rewrite
it look at it, repeat it He had a copy
book, a kind of scrapbook, in which he
put down all things and thus preserved
them."
John Hanks came out from Kentucky
when Abe was fourteen years of age
and lived four years with the Lincolns.
We cannot describe some of Abe's hab
its better than John has described
them for us: "When Lincoln Abe and
I returned to the house from work, he
would go to the cupboard, snatch a
piece of corn bread, take down a book,
sit down on a chair, cock his legs up
high as his head and read. He and I
worked barefooted, grubbed it, plowed,
mowed and cradled together; plowed
corn, gathered it and shucked corn.
Abraham read constantly when he had
an opportunity."
Among the. books upon which Abe
laid his hands were ".SSsop's Fables,"
"Robinson Crusoe," Bunyan's "Pil
grim's Progress," a "History of the
United States" and Weems "Life of
Washington." All these he read many
times and transferred extracts from
them to the boards and the scrapbook.
He had procured the scrapbook because
most of his literature was borrowed,
and he thought it profitable to take co
pious notes from the books before he
returned them. David Turnham had
bought a volume of "The Revised
Statutes of Indiana;" but aa he was
acting constable at the time, he could
not lend it to Abe. But Abe was not
to be baffled in his purpose of going
through and through every book in the
neighborhood, and so, says Mr. Turn
ham, "he used to come to my house and
sit and read it"
The Bible, according to Mrs. Lincoln,
was not one of his studies. He sought
more congenial books. At that time he
neither talked nor read upon religious
subjects. If he had any opinions about
them he kept them to himself.
The Spoiled "life."
Abraham borrowed Weems' "Life of
Washington" from his neighbor, old Jo
si ah Crawford. The "Life" was read
with great avidity in the intervals of
work and when not in use was care
fully deposited on a shelf made ot a
clapboard laid on two pum. But just
behind the shelf there was a great
crack between the logs of the wall, and
one ngbt while Abe waa dreaming In
fbeIoft a storm came up, sad the rain,
tttown"tiKKM .the. 6epML soafceA 4a
previous dook' rroin coverTto" cover.
Crawford flatly refused to take the
damaged book back again. He ; said
that if Abe had no money to pay for
It he could work it out Of course there
was no alternative, and Abe was oblig
ed to discharge the debt by pulling fod
der three days at 25 cents a day.
; At home with his stepmother and the
children Abe was the most agreeable
fellow in the world. "He was always
ready to do everything for everybody."
When he was not doing some special
act of kindness he told stories or
cracked jokes. "He was as full of his
LINCOLN CIPHERING ON A BOABD.
yarns in Indiana as ever he was in Illi
nois." Dennis Hanks was a clever
hand at the same business, and so was
old Thomas Lincoln.
Mrs. Lincoln was never able to speak
of Abe's conduct to her without tears.
In her interview with Mr. Herndon,
when the sands of her life had nearly
run out, she spoke with deep emotion
of her own son, but said she thought
that Abe was kinder, better, truer,
than the other. Even the mother's in
stinct was lost as she looked back over
those long years of poverty and priva
tion in the Indiana cabin, when Abe's
grateful love softened the rigors of her
lot and his great heart and giant frame
were always at her command.
"Abe was a poor boy," said she, "and
I can say what scarcely one woman a
mother can say in a thousand. Abe
never gave me a cross word or look
and never refused, in fact or appear
ance, to do anything I requested him.
I never gave him a cross word in all
my life. His mind and mine what lit
tle I had seemed to run together. He
was here after he was elected presi
dent." (At this point the aged speaker
turned away to weep and then, wiping
her eyes with her apron, went on with
the story.) "He was dutiful to me al
ways. I think he loved me truly. I had
a son, John, who was raised with Abe.
Both were good boys, but I must say,
both now being dead, that Abe was the
best boy I ever Baw or expect to see. I
wish I bad died when my husband
died. I did not want Abe to run for
president; did not want him elected;
was afraid somehow felt in my heart;
and when he came down to see me aft
er he was elected president I still felt
that something told me that something
would befall Abe and that I should see
him no more." Y
Oratorical Beginnings.
Abe had a very retentive . memory.
He frequently amused his young com
panions by repeating to them long pas
sages from books he had been reading.
On Monday mornings he would mount
a stump and deliver, with a wonderful
approach to exactness, the sermon he
had heard the day before. His taste for
public speaking appeared to be natural
and irresistible.
His stepsister, Matilda Johnston, says
he was an indefatigable preacher.
"When father and' mother would go to
church, Abe would take down the Bi
ble, read a verse, give out a hymn, and
we would sing. Abe was about fifteen
years of age. He preached, and we
would do the crying. Sometimes he
would join in the chorus of tears. One
day my brother, John Johnston, caught
a land terrapin, brought it to the place
where Abe was preaching, threw It
against the tree and crushed the shell.
It suffered much quivered all over.
Abe then preached against cruelty to
animals, contending that an ant's life
wa!j,.ns sweet to. It .as ours. to us."
(To be Continued.)
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BEIJLEFOTJNTAIN.
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hall, the Bellefountain band gave a free
concert to a full house. Great credit is
due the members of the band for the
splendid work they are doing.
Friday evening the 27th., at the hall
will oe given an entertainment under the
management of tbe Ladies' Aid Society.
A splendid program has been prepared
and everybody with their families are
expected to be present
Sirs. John Jackson, of Sherman county,
is visiting at the home of her father, Bev.
A. Larkins.
Mrs. Dr. Bennett has been in Belie
fountain lor several days with her people.
j Spring leading k about completed;
fall crops look quite progressing. ;-j4
' Van Dodge, the cream man. Is making
two trips a week to the Corrailia cream
ery. Several new separators are being
ordered and the business seems to e
. aking a steady growth in the south
end of the county.
i A. H. Haw ley has sold his band of
j -beep consisting of about 340 to Mai
Wilhelm
George Hall, while stretching some
wire fence had the misfortune to gasti
is hand qnite severely on a barb wire,
j here is being a good deal of fencing
. r ere about all of wire Mr. Hall boil'
I fie fence around the Simpson chap I
lot.
Mr. White, of Junction, is visiting at
the home of his daughter, Mrs. J. H .
Edwards.
The ooe of Frank Pwrter, where the
local te ephone .s kept, came near going
up in smoke the other day, but was dis
covered in time to save what would hav
been a conflagration.
The public school cloeep the 11th ot
Mav. A fine entertainment is being
prepared fot that occasion.
The election is over and the general
opinion of the primary law is that it is
still open to improvement.
ST. PATRICK'S DAY IN JAPAN
"Finding of the Christians" a No
table Feast in the Church of
Mikado's Islands.
It is a little known fact among
those who have watched St.
Patrick's dav celebrated with
pomp and circumstances, that in
far off Japan the 17th of March is
celebrated as a great feast day by
the Catholic church. The day is
known as the Feast of the Finding
of the Christians.
The traits of valor and loyalty
that the world has recently dis
covered in Japanese character fit
very well with the remarkable
story of faith told in the annals
of the church in Japan.
This feast day is celebrated in
honor of 15,000 Japanese Chris
tians who, on the reopening of the
country to missionaries on March
17, 1865, were discovered to have
kept the faith unsullied, though
absolutely isolated for three cen
turies, since 1640, when more than
1,000 Augustinians, Dominicans,
Franciscans and Jesuits, together
with 200,000 native Christians,
suffered martyrdom and the faith
preached by St. Francis Xavier
was apparently stamped out.
It is significant of Japanese
character that when St. Francis
Xavier left Japan, in 1551 Japan
then possessed 500,000 converts
he wrote: "So far as I know, the
Japanese nation is the single and
only nation of them all which
seems likely to preserve unshaken
and forever the profession of
Christian holiness if once it em
braces it."
At this time the annals of Chris
tianity in Japan began to parallel
Rome under Nero. In 1587 the
Mikado Hideyoshi, who otherwise
was a splendid ruler, ordered all
Christians out of Japan in 20
days. On February 5, 1597, 26 Jap
anese Christians were crucified at
Nagasaki.
This persecution only seemed
to inflame the people's faith, and
soon almost 2,000,000 Christians
figured among the population of
Japan. Under the next emperor,
Yepasu, from 1614 to 1640, the
very name of Christians seemed to
be wiped from the land, 40,000
Christians being massacred at one
time.
Nearly 200 years afterward a
Japanese junk was wrecked on the
shores of the Philippines and the
20 Japanese survivors were found
to be wearing Christian medals
which they reverenced. They
proved to have been baptized and
properly instructed by their par
?nts, who in turn had descended
from the early Christians.
The next year, 1832, missionaries-
visited their ancient field,
but they were not allowed to talk
Christianity to natives until a
church was built on the site of the
Nagasaki martrydom in 1865, and
that favor was granted through
political pressure by America,
France, England and other na
tions. On March 17, 1865, the feast of
the "Finding of the Christians"
had its inception. On that date
L5 Japanese entered the church
ind kneeling down proclaimed
that they were of the same faith,
having celebrated Christmas all
through the years of isolation and
prayed to Deous Sama (Jesus
Dhrist), Santa Maria Sama (the
Blessed Virgin), and O Yaso
3amana yo f u (the foster Father
f Jesus, St. Joseph).
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